As you all may know from past blog posts we celebrate Earth Day annually in our own unique way here at Summer Time Studios – which basically means it is creatively different each year. This year we gave special focus to prayers for humanity as we move through an epic historical transition on a global scale.
This transition has catastrophic elements as systems and structures seem to be collapsing all around the globe. We are both historians and have studied deeply civilization histories as well as classic Empire Collapses over the centuries of time up to present day.
One important note of each epic turning of an age is that humanity always seem to be able to anchor in new systems and structures that meet the needs of the times and rise through the ashes like a Phoenix. They manage to do this through creatively applying their minds, hearts, and spirits to manifest their dreams of a better future.
Celebrating Earth Day includes celebrating humanity – we know many feel there is not much to celebrate in the face of war, death, pandemics, violence, economic struggles, homelessness and dozens of other social breakdowns but when you look at the list of these challenges you will see that history has shown us we can and will prevail through human persistence and perseverance in the face of ridiculous odds!
As historians we ourselves we try not to get swept up in the subjective realms of these times and we focus all of our energy on understanding why the world is going through these epic changes. Everything that is happening today has long and deep roots into our collective past which many have forgotten or have limited understandings of.
In our Earth Day prayers for humanity we prayed that people would be guided to this knowledge and that it would help them build context for understanding so that they would be able to navigate these times knowing they are a part of history and they would have the strength/power to rise to fulfilling their personal destiny and purposes. That was our Earth Day prayer and we send the Earth and all of the Children of Earth our deepest blessings.
Book I of the Tales of Orlen Series, 
The Chinese Year of the Tiger has begun and I (Jade) am very happy with the progress that has been made on my first publication 
One area where I’ve (me Jaron) have always fallen short in my illustrations is architectural design. I just don’t have the mind for it. So I went to Fiverr to find someone who did. Fatima’s Artistry was the very first official hiring that Summer Time Studios contracted with and it was really exciting connecting and working with Fatima. It was a simple job asking her to help me with some concept art for architectural design and I can honestly say that I was very impressed with her work! It was very imaginative and gave me ideas on how I could even expand the design. I’m very thankful to her for her help and recommend her highly. She is a very skilled 
This is the season that we at Summer Time Studios take a 21 day celebration beginning December 1st to enjoy the short days and long nights by spending time with family and friends – it is our season of 
This Winter Solstice did not just bring us long black nights but also we were blessed to be able to rescue a beautiful Black horse from a very bad situation. She lived near us and had suffered from neglect and awful living environment. Thanks to a good friend we were able to negotiate with the owner a way to buy her from him and bring her to our loving home. We have 4 horses at our ranch so she is able to join a new herd and receive the best care a horse deserves. We named her Taska and from the first day of her arrival she made it clear that Jade was the one she liked the best of us! Many people know how amazing and wonderful horses are but many don’t know at all how many thousands of horses are neglected and in need of rescue. There are many horse rescue organizations throughout the country worthy of support to help horses that are in terrible situations. We were happy that we were able to find a way to help beautiful Taska. She has her own barn/stall now and has a warm blanket for the cold nights. The equine vet came out to see her and gave her the treatments she needed. She told us she was about 5 years old so that is still very young and we look forward to having many many years ahead with her living a good life with us and our herd. 
We are excited to announce the completion of the Italian translation of “Long Live The Emperor”! It was so awesome to work with our translators and to see this work written in Italian was so exciting for us. 
Alessandra Repossi
We found wonderful translators for “Long Live The Emperor” after a couple weeks of researching. Alessandra and Francesca work together translating English into Italian professionally. This is a little about them directly from their 
“We are professional literary translators belonging to the Italian Association of Translators and Interpreters as qualified members, and to the American Literary Translators Association. We were both born in Italy. After spending many years abroad honing our language skills, we are now living in Tuscany — the region of Florence, Siena, and Pisa, where good wine and food abound, and beautiful scenery meets the eye around every corner. We have an enormous library where books in English dominate. We keep improving our translation skills when we’re not working by reading the masterpieces of literature both in English and in Italian.”
We have made the decision to go international with our publications! After the success of our marketing campaigns with Metatron (who is based in Italy) and much discussion about the direction we wish to go we have concluded that going international with our publications is the best way for us to connect with the global family. 
We are researching potential translators and going with advice Metatron gave us about what criteria we need in a good translator. Metatron worked as a translator in his past and is phenomenal in his understandings of linguistics (see his video below
Its been one year since “
Looking back had we known what was going happen after we did our official release we may have postponed until the dust settled and things calmed down. Even as we write this post the chaos is still spinning in many ways and we have been informed supply chain issues will be the next wave of this fragile human system collapse! 
We are dedicated to the long haul however so over this past year we have cultivated extreme patience and tenacity. Today we were presented with the “Hang In There” Award: For Persistence and Perseverance in the Face of Ridiculous Odds! 
E-book sales of Long Live The Emperor have been successful enough to pay for ongoing marketing expenses which is wonderful and we are looking at the possibility of translating the work for international publication. We are so grateful to everyone who has purchased the e-book and supported our launch of our studio. We look forward to sharing more in the coming months as summer comes to a close and we begin a new year! 
The peak of summer is always our favorite time of year. We have been of course working on our new upcoming books in between riding our new electric bikes in the mountains and river-boarding to cool off from the hot days. The long days are filled with many inspirations and we are grateful to all of our friends and family who are supporting our work. 
Our Metatron marketing campaign is doing great and we are so thankful for Metatron’s help with getting “Long Live The Emperor” shared within his noble community of the sword! 
“Our works will always be tailored to an audience that have high standards based on sound values/principles and who have an appreciation of classical beauty as well as a love of history. This audience we will want to form our community around is a ‘niche’ audience so to speak and we want to have a more personalized connection with them rather than blocking them into a mass audience and labeling them ‘fans’. We want to be able to call those who appreciate and support our works ‘allies’ and friends. That means we will not be going through established channels like Amazon or participating in mass marketing.” 
Our desire to share our works outside of the mainstream publishing paradigm has many built in challenges of marketing and distribution that we will be navigating in the present and coming years. One of the biggest challenges seems to be succeeding in simple communication via email. We have decided we are going to go back to old fashioned ‘snail mail’ correspondence because it seems like emails just get lost in some kind of a vacuum despite our best efforts to ‘google’ verify and all the other ‘safe guards’ that they claim are needed so that one’s email doesn’t end up in spam! There is something charming about putting letters in envelopes and placing stamps upon them which we enjoy. Our world has become too crazy fast and therefore it seems many opportunities are simply being missed because everyone is in hyper drive. 
The second biggest challenge is in getting print on demand (POD) for printed versions of our work streamlined so that when someone orders a hard copy of a book it can be easily drop shipped from the printer at a cost that is reasonable. We are working on getting “Long Live The Emperor” printed so that folks can order a copy easily without us having to bulk order and then mail ourselves. Many of our recent sales have been international so if we cannot find good overseas POD we won’t be able to offer printed versions to folks in other countries – the shipping would cost more than the book! 
Our family publishing company – ReGenesis Media – is doing outreach on this matter and we hope to have something resolved by this coming autumn. It will be wonderful to be able to offer printed versions. Until then we will continue to offer our works in simple e-book downloads and we thank everyone who has purchased our work and appreciate your wonderful reviews!